Solano County Emergency Foster Home Program

Lilliput Children’s Services is the Emergency Foster Care provider for Solano County Child Welfare Services. We are URGENTLY seeking safe, emergency foster homes for children first entering the child welfare system in Solano County. The program needs to be up and running by October 1^st, 2011 but we do not currently have enough willing families. We need to find temporary homes for these children TODAY. Please help us to help our community’s most vulnerable children.

By utilizing emergency foster homes, it is anticipated that children in care will experience fewer moves and an increased sense of safety and well-being. This approach will allow children to remain in an interim, emergency family home for up to 10 days, allowing more time for thorough planning and appropriate subsequent placements. The priority will be to place children with kin – extended family members or someone else known to the children – when possible, with a focus on permanency.

Research in recent years identifies the negative impacts of foster care on a child’s healthy development. In addition to being separated from their birth parents, children are often disconnected from siblings, extended family, friends, community and their culture of origin when they enter care. The impact of multiple placements and moves while in foster care further compounds the immeasurable loss these children must face when they leave behind meaningful relationships.

Emergency Foster Family Homes Needed!

Emergency foster homes are available 24-hours a day to take children in and provide a safe harbor with little or no advance notice. Children will be placed with these families immediately following removal from their current home, which allows children to have a caring interim family home until more permanent arrangements can be made. Emergency foster parents will be trained to meet the needs of all children from birth to 17 years of age, including those who are medically fragile and non-ambulatory, and will accept sibling groups in order to keep them together.

Lilliput is a private, non-profit agency licensed by the State and has completed more successful foster adoptions than any other private agency in Northern California. Lilliput has been serving Solano County since 2009 and has deep expertise in concurrent planning, permanency services and kinship care, which is vital to designing and administering a quality emergency foster care system. Lilliput has demonstrated success in developing and implementing new, creative, and outcome-driven programs is largely impacted by its strength in working as a partner to the public child welfare system. Lilliput is committed to learning and understanding the unique needs within a specific community and child welfare agency, in order to customize services within its scope of expertise. This flexible approach enables Lilliput to carry out the vision and mission outlined by Solano County.

See our overview flier, Emergency Foster Families Needed.

See our detailed Emergency Foster Care tri-fold brochure.

For more information, please contact our Fairfield office! Our Foster Care page also has some additional information.

We also have a special Facebook page just for Solano County